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Additional authors

1. United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office.

Description

1. xx, 708 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

1. "[E]xamines the former Congressman Melvin Laird's efforts to reconstitute the Department of Defense during the last years of the Vietnam war... Laird acted to mitigate the adverse effects of the Vietnam War on the department and to prepare the nation's armed forces for the future. Foremost was the transition from a conscripted military to an all-volunteer force, a fundamental policy shift that ended an unpopular and inequitable draft system."--from jacket.

Series statement

1. Secretaries of Defense historical series ; volume 7

Uniform title

1. Secretaries of Defense historical series ; volume 7.

Subject

1. Cabinet officers
2. United States > Department of Defense
3. Politics and government
4. Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
5. United States > Department of Defense > History
6. United States > Department of Defense > Officials and employees > Biography
7. Employees
8. Military policy
9. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States
10. Laird, Melvin R
11. United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974
12. 1961 - 1975
13. Biography
14. History
15. United States > Military policy
16. Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Genre/Form

1. Biography.
2. History.

Contents

1. Change comes to the Pentagon -- Organizing national security in a new administration -- How much for defense? The FY 1970 budget -- The predicament of Vietnam -- The battle over troop withdrawals -- Taking the fight into Cambodia -- The war in Laos -- Preparing South Vietnam to stand alone -- A time of trial: the Easter Offensive and Vietnamization -- Looking beyond Vietnam: the FY 1971 budget -- A turning point: the FY 1972 budget -- The enduring commitment to NATO -- Change in East Asia -- The all-volunteer force -- Strategic defense: ABM and SALT -- Realistic deterrence? The FY 1973 budget -- Military assistance -- Looking toward the future: the FY 1974 budget -- Fixing the fraying force -- Laird's legacy.

Call number

1. JFF 16-175

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-683) and index.

Author

1. Hunt, Richard A., 1942- author.

Title

1. Melvin Laird and the foundation of the post-Vietnam military, 1969-1973 / Richard A. Hunt.

Publisher

1. Washington, D.C. : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2015.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Secretaries of Defense historical series ; volume 7
2. Secretaries of Defense historical series ; volume 7.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-683) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1961 - 1975

Added author

1. United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office.

Other form:

1. Online version: Hunt, Richard A., 1942- Melvin Laird and the foundation of the post-Vietnam military, 1969-1973 (OCoLC)911207429

LCCN

1. 2015009197

ISBN

1. 9780160927577 (alk. paper)
2. 0160927579 (alk. paper)

Gpo item no.

1. 0306

Sudoc no.

1. D 1.2:H 62/3/V.7

Research call number

1. JFF 16-175